When seventeen-year-old Zoie Garcia decided she wanted to be baptized into the Church, in many ways, she brought her family with her.
“We saw that fire in her; it lit a fire in all of us,” said her father, Joe Garcia. “She’s been a catalyst for the entire family.”
Zoie, who was baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church this Easter Vigil, described her childhood as “half-Catholic, half-Protestant.” Though her father grew up Catholic, he had drifted from the faith, and Zoie’s biological mother was protestant. As a result, Zoie and her younger siblings were not baptized into any religion, and their childhood was peppered with non-denominational services and mega-church visits. When Zoie’s family moved to Plano a few years ago, she said they began to attend a smattering of holiday Masses.
